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dc.contributor.authorDzidza, Peter Mawunyo
dc.contributor.authorJackson, Ian
dc.contributor.authorNormanyo, Amatefee K.
dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-06T13:18:34Z
dc.date.available2018-12-06T13:18:34Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-31
dc.identifier.citationDzidza PM., Jackson I., Normanyo AK., & Walsh M. (2017) 'The effects of poverty reduction strategies on artisanal fishing in Ghana: The case of Keta municipality', Journal of Sustainable Development, 10 (3), pp. 68-80 doi: 10.5539/jsd.v10n3p68en_US
dc.identifier.issn1913-9063en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5539/jsd.v10n3p68
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/621957
dc.descriptionThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.en
dc.description.abstractThis paper assesses the level of poverty in Ghana after three decades of successive implementation of numerous poverty reduction strategies including Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) by various governments of Ghana. The Keta municipality in the Volta region, where artisanal fishing thrives, was chosen as a representative sample of the whole country. The authors identified eleven artisanal fishing communities in the selected area using systematic sampling. Data were collected on household consumption patterns. This process was used to determine the profile of poverty using the latest upper poverty line of Ghana and the Greer and Thorbecke (1984) poverty formula. Research findings show that the various poverty alleviation methods implemented over three decades by the Government of Ghana, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) significantly failed as they have not produced any meaningful effect on poverty reduction in the sample area. Finally, this paper offers further suggestions regarding how this poverty gap may be bridged using alternative methods.en_US
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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCanadian Center of Science and Educationen_US
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/66136en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.subjectpoverty reductionen_US
dc.subjectfishing communitiesen_US
dc.titleThe effects of poverty reduction strategies on artisanal fishing in Ghana: The case of Keta municipalityen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Sustainable Developmenten_US
dc.date.accepted2017-03-22
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen_US
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW061218IJen_US
rioxxterms.versionAMen_US
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2017-05-31en_US
dc.source.volume10
dc.source.issue3
dc.source.beginpage68
dc.source.endpage80
refterms.dateFCD2018-12-06T13:18:36Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2018-12-06T13:18:36Z


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